Who SHOULD Win at the 2026 Grammys: Bad Bunny vs. Bieber vs. Kendrick & More!

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The New York Times

Music, Music Commentary, Music Interviews

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🗓️ 29 January 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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This year's awards, airing Sunday, propose a few different ideas about the state of contemporary pop. Here’s who we prefer among the major nominees. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app.

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0:00.0	Podcasts take one.
0:04.6	How many takes do you think we're going to do?
0:06.7	Jesus Christ.
0:08.6	Welcome to the New York Times podcast, your watered down holy water of weekly cultural review.
0:13.9	I'm John Caramonica and I'm the critic.
0:15.7	I am Joe Koskeurelli and I'm the reporter.
0:17.9	And we are talking about the grannies.
0:20.2	Again, it's what we do. It's what we're made to do.
0:24.5	I do want to say, and maybe this is rude to say in the beginning of a Grammys episode, but every year after the Grammys are done,
0:31.1	you and I have some conversation where we're just like, that's the last year we're doing the Grammys.
0:35.8	But now we're having so much fun.
0:37.8	That's true. In this format. This is what we're going to do. We are going to talk about the big categories. We're going to talk about a few specialist categories. And we're going to talk about who we think should win. It's worth pointing out, we don't want to prognosticate who will win. We might mention it here and there. but the ground's wrong anyway.
0:55.7	Here's the thing.
0:57.1	Even if I We don't want to prognostate who will win. We might mention it here and there.
0:55.3	We're wrong anyway.
0:56.4	Here's the thing.
1:06.1	Even if I went to school for 20 years to study how to think like a Grammy voter, I would still fail.
1:09.6	The other thing we should note is that Grammy voters are changing.
1:10.9	Allegedly. Allegedly.
1:11.5	Allegedly.
1:13.6	They've been in this push to modernize.
1:15.9	I think we've seen it in the nominations the last few years.
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